Featured Artist: Mauro De Martino
| Mauro De Martino was born in Conegliano Veneto, Italy, in 1963. He studied at Liceo Artistico in Latina. He lives and works in Latina. Since 1986 until today he has taken his main solo and group exhibitions in Rome, Bologne, Milan, Modena, Latina and New York. The most important critical writings on Mauro De Martino were written by: Cecilia Casorati, Viviana Gravano, Fabio Francione, Michele Cossyro, Chiara Barbato, Silvia Sfrecola. |
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| Senza titolo 1 - Untitled 1 - cm.180 x 145 - Collezione
Privata - Private collection Tecnica mista su tavola - Mixed media on wood |
Senza titolo 4 - Untitled 4 - cm. 125 x 105 Tecnica mista su tavola - Mixed media on wood |
Senza titolo 3 - Untitled 3 - cm.124 x 105 Tecnica mista su tavola - Mixed media on wood |
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| Senza titolo 2 - Untitled 2 - cm.128 x 130 Tecnica mista su tavola - Mixed media on wood |
Senza titolo 5 - Untitled 5 - cm. 105 x 125 Tecnica mista su tavola - Mixed media on wood |
Senza titolo 8 - Untitled 8 - cm.102 x 110 Tecnica mista su tavola - Mixed media on wood |
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| I am generally attracted by the painting of those who do not know how to paint. I am interested not so much in the result or style of their work but in their inexperience, the fact of not having the least idea of how to go about their work. Therefore, every time I start a painting I try and re-create this condition. Without having any initial idea or project I alternate between phases of fortuity and rational intervention. In this way the elaboration of a painting is enriched by the unforeseen which makes the end result ever less predictable. |
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| Senza titolo 7 - Untitled 7 - cm. 84 x 105 Tecnica mista su tavola - Mixed media on wood |
Senza titolo 6 - Untitled 6 - cm. 114 x 155 Tecnica mista su tavola - Mixed media on wood |
Senza titolo 9 - Untitled 9 - cm. 72 x 107 - Collezione
Privata - Private collection Tecnica mista su tavola - Mixed media on wood |
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I do not use valuable colours, my materials are reduced to a minimum and my painting tools are often improvised in order to be forced to continually find new solutions with which to continue the work. I like these signs to be evident, I want the mistakes and reconsiderations to show. The wooden tablet on which I apply my colours is an integral part of the painting and it is often scratched, engraved, grazed. Apart from increasing the expressive force of the painting, this also emphasises the corporeity of the painting, its physical presence, the material and non narrative or idealized aspect of my work. My research is in part due to a process of subtraction, because I believe that it is not important to know exactly what one is creating in Art, but it is essential to know what needs to be taken away and avoided. Even if figurative elements are present in my paintings, I intend to represent reality, not through images which make up its surrogate but through the painting itself. The reality I am interested in is not isolated from the world, it is not abstraction. If there is a visionary component, it is not found somewhere else, in idealized places, but it is part of the reality itself, captured in its totality and without any simplifying screens. |
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| Senza titolo 10 - Untitled 10 - cm. 70 x 90 - Collezione
Privata - Private collection Tecnica mista su tavola - Mixed media on wood |
Senza titolo 11 - Untitled 11 - cm. 50 x 70 - Collezione
Privata - Private collection Tecnica mista su tavola - Mixed media on wood |
Senza titolo 16 - Untitled 16 - cm. 75 x 100 Tecnica mista su tavola - Mixed media on wood |
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